Antimalarial drug discovery: progress and approaches

JL Siqueira-Neto, KJ Wicht, K Chibale… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent antimalarial drug discovery has been a race to produce new medicines that
overcome emerging drug resistance, whilst considering safety and improving dosing …

The emergence of artemisinin partial resistance in Africa: how do we respond?

PJ Rosenthal, V Asua, JA Bailey… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Malaria remains one of the most important infectious diseases in the world, with the greatest
burden in sub-Saharan Africa, primarily from Plasmodium falciparum infection. The …

Antimalarial drug resistance: linking Plasmodium falciparum parasite biology to the clinic

B Blasco, D Leroy, DA Fidock - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
The global adoption of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) in the early 2000s
heralded a new era in effectively treating drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria …

Antimalarial drug resistance and novel targets for antimalarial drug discovery

MA Shibeshi, ZD Kifle, SA Atnafie - Infection and drug resistance, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Malaria is among the most devastating and widespread tropical parasitic diseases in which
most prevalent in develo** countries. Antimalarial drug resistance is the ability of a …

Challenges and recent progress in drug discovery for tropical diseases

M De Rycker, B Baragaña, SL Duce, IH Gilbert - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Infectious tropical diseases have a huge effect in terms of mortality and morbidity, and
impose a heavy economic burden on affected countries. These diseases predominantly …

Map** the malaria parasite druggable genome by using in vitro evolution and chemogenomics

AN Cowell, ES Istvan, AK Lukens, MG Gomez-Lorenzo… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Chemogenetic characterization through in vitro evolution combined with whole-genome
analysis can identify antimalarial drug targets and drug-resistance genes. We performed a …

[HTML][HTML] MalDA, accelerating malaria drug discovery

T Yang, S Ottilie, ES Istvan, KP Godinez-Macias… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
The Malaria Drug Accelerator (MalDA) is a consortium of 15 leading scientific laboratories.
The aim of MalDA is to improve and accelerate the early antimalarial drug discovery process …

Mutations in Plasmodium falciparum actin-binding protein coronin confer reduced artemisinin susceptibility

AR Demas, AI Sharma, W Wong, AM Early… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Drug resistance is an obstacle to global malaria control, as evidenced by the recent
emergence and rapid spread of delayed artemisinin (ART) clearance by mutant forms of the …

Revisiting the initial steps of sexual development in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

C Bancells, O Llorà-Batlle, A Poran, C Nötzel… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Human to vector transmission of malaria requires that some blood-stage parasites abandon
asexual growth and convert into non-replicating sexual forms called gametocytes. The initial …